PSY 11 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Phallic Stage, Toilet Training, Oral Stage
5 Apr 2016
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Methods of studying the unconscious (can"t study directly) Process of repression relaxes during dreaming (why they are strange) Dreams: highly symbolic, thoughts that are usually kept in unconscious. Therapists discuss their feelings and try to relate them to real life. Ask them to report every single thought without holding back. Helpful b/c people report seemingly unconnected things that are actually connected. Freud changed his theory to start trying to help people understand their feelings. Thought that a healthy person has control over their unconscious and the way they express and relieve it, but you have to know yourself and have insight. Studies with normal people: all have primitive desires. At some point all reported similar memories to those who were considered and diagnosed to be hysterical. Normal people have a better way of handling hysteria because they don"t bottle it up and repress it. Develops this concept by learning that the mental image can"t satisfy them.
